RE: [cobalt-users] RaQ4i : Customised operating system restore CD / OSRCD

["Paul Shuttleworth" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Richard Abrams
> Sent: 21 October 2003 16:19
> To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] RaQ4i : Customised operating system restore
> CD / OSRCD
>
>
> >> I can build a "vanilla" restore CD without any problems,
> >> however as soon as I try using a version with the added
> >> PKG files I get the following error message during the
> >> boot process (I'm using a network boot; the following
> >> message is displayed on the machine with the OSRCD in):
> >>
> >> Warning: unable to open an initial console.
> >> Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.
>
> > When you built the "vanilla" CD, did you modify it at all on your winXP
> > Machine or just write it directly to CD?
>
> The vanilla CD was a straight decompress using WinRAR and burn to
> CD. I guess it
> could well be WinISO doing something strange with permissions. I am simply
> adding the 44 (!) PKG files into the NFSROOT_X86\BTO_SYNC\BUNDLES
> directory
> using the program and then re-saving the ISO. Any hints or tips
> as to what I
> should be looking at or setting permissions-wise?
>

If I were you Richard, I would give up and stick a Linux partition on a box,
or find an old PC and stick Linux on it!
I have found problems creating an OS restore CD using windoze to handle
files, it seems to screw up some filenames and IIRC one of the files on the
OSRCD is in fact the same name as a protected windoze system file (cant
remember now which) and does not get copied.

In my testing I gave up trying and did the following.

I set up an old PC to run Linux (no CD writer) and used bruces excellent how
to, to create the ISO image under nix, I then FTP'd that to a qube 2 on the
network and burnt the ISO image to CD using a windoze platform.

A little long winded but it worked!

You might want to change the size of the standard / and /var partitions. On
later models they were set at 3gb and 1.5gb, if you want to try the bigger
partitions you need to make the following changes in the partition file
(yours will be a 4i not 4r restore, location will be slightly different)


  The Partition_Table referred to is in

 /nfsroot-x86/bto-sync/production/<release_spec>/installer/release_
 spec.<product>

  For example, on RaQ 4r, it's

  /nfsroot-x86/bto-sync/production/3100R_1.155/installer/release_spec.3100R

  The relevant bit of the file looks like:

  # This is the partition table for the product
  %begin Partition_Table
  0,750,83              ### change 750 to 3000 (or whatever size you need)
  ,158,5
  ,200,83              ### change 200 to 1500 (or whatever size you need)
  ,,83
  ,30,83
  ,,82
  %end Partition_Table

Hope this helps a little.
Paul.